The Beatles Flashcards
What year did the Beatles form?
1960
Who was the first bassist?
Stuart Sutcliffe
Which Beatles album was released in 1967 and is considered a landmark in music history?
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Which song was The Beatles first Billboard Hot 100 number one in the United States?
I Want to Hold Your Hand. 1964.
What was the Beatles’ first studio album?
Please Please Me
What year did the Beatles officially break up?
1970
What is the title of the Beatles’ last studio album which was released before they disbanded?
Let It Be
What is the name of the record label that the Beatles founded?
Apple Records
Which Beatles album features the iconic song ‘Here Comes the Sun’?
Abbey Road
Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near
Look at him working, darning his socks in the night when there’s nobody there
What does he care?
are the lyrics from which song?
Eleanor Rigby
Who was known as the ‘quiet Beatle’?
George Harrison
On what famous rooftop did the Beatles perform in January 1969?
The rooftop on the Apple Corps building in Savile Row
Who was the first drummer with the band, playing with them in Liverpool and Hamburg?
Pete Best
Who was the song “Looking Through You” about?
Jane Asher (McCartney’s Girlfriend).
These lyrics are from which Beatles song?
Wednesday morning at five o’clock
As the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
She’s Leaving Home - 1967
What was the name of the band before they became the Beatles?
The Quarrymen
Which Beatles song was originally called Scrambled Eggs?
Yesterday
Name the 5 movies featuring the Beatles?
A Hard Day’s Night
Help
Magical Mystery Tour
Yellow Submarine
Let it Be
Which song contains these lyrics:
I’ll pretend that I’m kissing
The lips I am missing
And hope that my dreams will come true
All My Loving - 1963
“A Cellarful of Noise” was whose autobiography?
Brian Epstein
Which album consisted of only Lennon and McCartney compositions?
A Hard Day’s Night.
Which artist designed “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album cover?
Peter Blake
At the beginning of which war did the BBC decide to ban “Back in the USSR”?
The BBC decided to ban the song 22 years after its release at the beginning of the first Gulf War in 1990.
The lyrics “let your knickers down”, proved a step too far for the BBC who banned the song. Which song contains these words?
I am a Walrus
